Wedding flowers bring Hospice joy
In Upworthy.com, curator Mary Rindlesbach writes of a Coeur d’Alene business owner who collects flowers after weddings to bring joy to Hospice patients:
Shawn Chamberlain (of the Flower Bar/Riverstone) was tending the gardens at a hospice care facility one day when she noticed something unusual about one of the patients. The woman, standing on a nearby patio, caught her off guard. Most of the patients Shawn had seen at the facility were older; hospice care is typically for those who are given six months or less to live, after all. But this patient was young — a young mother. A young mother herself, Shawn felt compelled to do something for the woman. Looking down and seeing the flowers in the garden, she quickly clipped a few and had a charge nurse deliver them to the patient. More here.
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